Brings together the views of architects, artists, critics, historians, and philosophers to explore how beauty can again become an integral part of discussions about architecture. Beauty in Architecture brings...More info...
From the acclaimed author of American Comics and Jewish Comedy comes a sweeping and entertaining narrative that details the rise and enduring grip of horror in American literature, cinema, and, ultimately, culture-from the taut, terrifying stories o...More info...
An engrossing history of how Western philosophers have theorized the ugly from ancient times to the present day. Why has our preoccupation with concepts, standards, and theories of the beautiful not resulted in a correspondingly compreh...More info...
An engrossing history of how Western philosophers have theorized the ugly from ancient times to the present day. Why has our preoccupation with concepts, standards, and theories of the beautiful not resulted in a correspondingly compreh...More info...
Unlock the secrets of human anatomy through this engaging, richly illustrated guide that makes drawing the human form accessible, inspiring, and fun.The Secrets of Artistic Anatomy transforms the complex world of human anatomy...More info...
A new theoretical approach to the concept of immersive experiences in relation to space, site and atmosphere. Site-Reliant Immersive Experiences offers a new theoretical approach to the concept of immersive experiences in relatio...More info...
Examining modern art vandalism across Europe and North America from 1970 to 2020, this book offers the first comprehensive sociological analysis of this phenomenon.Drawing on perspectives from directors, curators, security personnel, legal...More info...
This volume explores issues of repair, maintenance, sustenance, and adaptation within the context of interior design and its histories.The contributions to this volume celebrate critical analysis of past and present work...More info...
This volume explores issues of repair, maintenance, sustenance, and adaptation within the context of interior design and its histories.The contributions to this volume celebrate critical analysis of past and present work...More info...
(Pub. Date: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Publisher: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111694061)
As a multifaceted and intermedial phenomenon, poetry in the digital age not only demands a rethinking and expansion of the traditional paradigms of literary studies but also attracts increasing attention from other humanities. This interdisciplin...More info...
Offering a novel conceptual methodology where Jungian psychology is used to analyse Jungs own architecture, this book offers an innovative reading of Jungs Bollingen Tower in order to explore a Jungian sense of place, situating it within a wider...More info...
(Pub. Date: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9781639734283)
From renowned geographer James Cheshire, a four-color tour through a forgotten collection of maps that shaped over 200 years of Western history. From renowned geographer James Cheshire, a four-color tour through a forgotten colle...More info...
The Last Spirits of Manhattan transports readers to 1956 Manhattan, where the glamorous and eerie collide in a narrative as intricate as the city itself. At the heart of the novel is Carolyn, a spirited young woman who flees her mundane Midwest life...More info...
This volume delves into the complex topic of race relations in 1980s Britain by examining the concept of whiteness and how it was portrayed visually in popular art and mass media. ...More info...
Series: Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture
(Pub. Date: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Publisher: University of Delaware Press, ISBN-13: 9781644533642)
Inglorious Artists traces the origins of the image of the starving artist to late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century France, where practicing and aspiring visual artists mobilized the emerging genre of graphic satire to publish hundreds...More info...
Series: Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture
(Pub. Date: 14-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Publisher: University of Delaware Press, ISBN-13: 9781644533635)
Inglorious Artists traces the origins of the image of the starving artist to late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century France, where practicing and aspiring visual artists mobilized the emerging genre of graphic satire to publish hundreds of sat...More info...